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\section{Introduction}
Owing to the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, emerging applications, such as Alexa, Woogie, and Prisma, grow more prevalent than ever to change human lives. As a classical problem in computer vision, image super-resolution technology~\cite{shi2019face,ren2018nonlocal,cosmo2019multiple,chu2018novel,lu2018deep,shi2017structure,wang2018information} also achieves tremendous progress and be widely used in many mobile devices, such as mobile phones, for photo enhancement~\cite{ignatov2018pirm}. With such a light-weight algorithm, mobile devices are capable of providing a high-quality photograph and free from purchase expensive sensors. However, due to the existing image SR algorithms are restricted to handle simple down-scaling kernels(e.g., Bicubic, Bilinear), the robustness of traditional image SR models is limited when dealing with intricate data.

Example- based approaches~\cite{freeman2002example} open a new solution for image SR by a data-driven fashion and address the relationship between internal- and external- sample~\cite{tirer2019super,cheong2017deep,cao2017attention}. Yang~\emph{et al}~\cite{yang2010image} uses spare representation to build a dictionary learning algorithm between LR and HR image. Deep convolutional neural networks have also generally applied in image SR. For instance, SRCNN~\cite{dong2014learning} uses a three-layer convolution network to simulate the spare coding process. VDSR~\cite{vdsr} first adopts a long-term skip connection to enforce neural network approximate residual map(i.e., the difference between LR image and HR image), rather than image content in the value domain. Similarly, the long-term skip connection technology is widely used in the latter image SR frameworks. EDSR~\cite{edrn} employs an efficient convolutional block and long-term skip connection to realize high-quality image restoration. RCAN~\cite{rcan} also employs feature squeeze and extraction strategy and multiple lengths skip connection for advanced image SR. These methods aim at restoring the corrupted image with fixed degeneration kernel and the real-world degeneration means may complicated and diverse, which limit the restoration quality when meeting real-world photo. Also, the fixed degeneration kernel inherently makes the input and the ground-truth image has a stable relationship and therefore turns the long-term residual connection to become practical. Nevertheless, the real-world LR and HR image pair are unable to have a strict aligned relationship as the filming conditions change and absolute alignment without information loss is impractical. To this end, these methods have two drawbacks: 1) Most of the image SR methods obtain the LR input by applying fixed degradation metrics on the ground-truth image, which limited the generalization ability toward real-world cases. 2) It is potentially less optimal that forward the original corrupt input when dealing with real-world image restoration, regardless of their pixel displacement.

Although conventional convolutional networks can extract diverse features with various inputs, the parameter is fixed during the inference process. DFN\cite{jia2016dynamic} opens up a new solution to turn convolutional features into dynamic filters for feature aggregation. Similar idea\cite{bhowmik2017training,realsr} is addressed in the image restoration task yet. KPN\cite{realsr} proposes a dynamic prediction mechanism by employing the high-dimensional feature into convolutional kernels. LP-KPN~\cite{realsr} further conducts the dynamic kernels on multi-scale feature for image restoration. As the multi-scale strategy~\cite{yang2019multilevel,huang2019pyramid,yang2019lightweight,liang2015human} prefers to conduct kind of down-samplings to obtain large receptive field, the relative local context is sufficient for restoration. Therefore, the usage of applying various size kernels is implied to aggregate local context effectively and avoid information lose.

This paper addresses the aforementioned issues by presenting a dual-path dynamic enhancement network.
Our contribution is to conduct a multi-scale dynamic attention module(MDA). Compared with the traditional convolutional kernel, our spatial attention kernel is learned in a content-adaptive fashion, which is more flexible. Compared with dynamic filter pipelines~\cite{dynamic,realsr}, our model uses multiple dynamic kernels from the different receptive field without information loss, which make our method enjoys rich diversity. We also conduct a lightweight coupled detail manipulation(CDM) to relax pixel displacement in real image SR. Compared with other long-term skip connection pipeline~\cite{vdsr}, our lightweight model exhibits a supporting pixel manipulation and correction. The above two components are joint together by a dual-way fashion to demonstrate charming results on real image SR benchmark.

\section{Methodology}
\subsection{Overview}
By convention, the image super-resolution aims at restoring the high-quality image$I_{HR}$ from poor-quality input $I_{LR}$. In classical image SR issue, the $I_{LR}$ is obtained from $I_{HR}$ with a down-sampling operation:
\begin{equation}
I_{LR} = \partial \left ( I_{HR}\otimes K_{Gauss}  \right ),
\end{equation}
where $ K_{Gauss}$ is a Gaussian blur operator and $\partial$ denotes the degradation process. $\partial$ usually adopts a Bicubic down-scale algorithm in traditional image SR. Real-SR dataset~\cite{realsr} is proposed to address real-world degeneration metrics by capturing $I_{HR}$ and $I_{LR}$ with different quality optical sensors and resolution settings. The data collection manner inherently make the image pair has different resolution property.

\begin{figure*}[t]
\centering
\subfloat[Laplacian Pyramid~\cite{realsr}]{
\label{fig:kernel_1}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{kpl.pdf}
\end{minipage}
}
\subfloat[Our]{
\label{fig:kernel_2}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{kernel_2.pdf}
\end{minipage}
}
\caption{Illustration of multi-scale dynamic attention mechanism. Typical multi-scale methods(e.g., (a)) tend to compress the feature into small size for the large receptive field, and then conduct convolutional feature extraction and re-scaling. Since relative local information is enough for the image SR, the proposed multi-scale dynamic attention module applies the various size of dynamic convolutional filters, which not only demonstrate a multi-scale enhancement but also free from re-scaling.
}
\label{fig:multi_scale}
\end{figure*}
DDet consists of two components(i.e., MDA and CDM). Given a low-resolution image $I_{LR}$, DDet send $I_{LR}$ into the dual-path model parallelly:
\begin{equation}
I_{Rev} = \mathbf{G}_{Dil}\left ( I_{LR} | \Theta_{Dil} \right ) + I_{LR},
\end{equation}
where the $ \Theta_{Dil}$ indicates the parameter of CDM. Since the overall reveal process based on a residual fashion, we use the $I_{LR}$ as the reference for the output of CDM. After obtaining the $I_{Rev}$, we employ a dynamic kernel to exhibit a local spatial aggregation.
Then, we extract the $I_{LR}$ into high-dimensional feature and represent it into dynamic kernel for spatial attention:
\begin{equation}
K_{Dyn} = \mathbf{G}_{Sat} \left ( I_{LR} | \Theta_{Sat} \right ),
\end{equation}
where $K_{Dyn}$ is learned content-adaptive kernel. As the kernel is flexible and aware to image content, we conduct a content-adaptive spatial attention by:
\begin{equation}
I_{Att} = \mathbf{F_{PR}} \left (\mathbf{g} \left ( I_{Rev} | K_{Dyn} \right ) \right ),
\label{eqa:attention}
\end{equation}
where $\mathbf{g}$ indicates a convolution operator, $K_{Dyn}$ is corresponding convolutional kernels and $\mathbf{F_{PR}}$ is a post-refinement operation. The above two branch work complementary for real image SR.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\subfloat[$I_{LR}$]{
\label{fig:detail_revealing1}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{i_lr.png}
\end{minipage}
}
\subfloat[$I_{rev}$]{
\label{fig:detail_revealing2}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\textwidth]{i_rev.png}
\end{minipage}
}
\caption{Demonstration of coupled detail manipulation.}
\vspace{-3mm}
\label{fig:detail_revealing}
\end{figure}
\vspace{-3mm}
 \begin{figure*}[ht]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.91\textwidth]{result.pdf}
    \vspace{-3mm}
    \caption{Visual comparison for 2 $\times$ SR. The best results in term of PSNR/SSIM are highlighted.}
    \label{fig:result}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Multi-scale Dynamic Attention}
The MDA is used for extract valuable local information and enhance the original low-quality input into high-quality image. As Fig.~\ref{fig:intro} show, MDA consists of a feature extractor $G_{Sat}$ and the kernel generation process. Meanwhile, $G_{Sat}$ inherits the structure of auto-encoder. We first down-sampling $I_{LR}$ with scale 4$\times$:
\begin{equation}
y_{down} = \Downarrow C(I_{LR}),
\end{equation}
where $ \Downarrow $ indicates the down-sampling and $C$ means the convolutional feature extraction. We use a set of residual block for the feature representation of $y_{down}$. Each residual block consists of two convolutional layer with size of $64 \times 3 \times 3$. We use 16 residual block in $G_{Sat}$ to obtain deeper representation ${y}'_{down}$. Finally, we upscale ${y}'_{down}$ as:
\begin{equation}
\Upsilon_{Dyn} = C\Uparrow C({y}'_{down}),
\end{equation}
where $\Uparrow$ is 4$\times$ upscale operation and $\Upsilon_{Dyn}$ is final output of $G_{Sat}$. The 4$\times$ down-sampling and up-sampling are adopted for two reasons: 1) Since the low- and high- resolution images are not be aligned strictly, the 4$\times$ is able to help the network obtains larger receptive field. 2) Under the limitation of GPU memory, the 4$\times$ down-sampling and up-sampling make it possible to incorporate deeper neural architecture. According to our experiment, a deeper model with down-sampling demonstrates better results than a shallow model without down-sampling.

\textbf{Dynamic filter formulation.} We then use $\Upsilon_{Dyn}$ to formulate our feature-based dynamic convolutional filters. we reformulate the feature into kernel shape across the channel. For instance, we have a feature with a size of $N \times C \times W \times H$, which indicates batch size, channel number, feature width, and height, respectively. Meanwhile, the feature width and height own the same shape with $I_{HR}$. Hence, a single dynamic convolutional filter can be obtained with:
\begin{equation}
K^{(w,h)}_{Dyn} = \Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h),
\label{eqa:kernel}
\end{equation}
$w$ and $h$ indicate the location. Besides, $1\leq w \leq W $ and $1\leq h \leq H$. Since we adopt a point-aware filtering strategy, each pixel in $I_{HR}$ own a individual dynamic filter. Suppose the $I_{HR}(w,h)$ is a pixel in the $I_{HR}$, we need to collect spatial information with pure local perspective by a dynamic filter $K_{Dyn}^{(w,h)}$. Therefore, $K_{Dyn}^{(w,h)}$ has corresponding location with $\Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h)$. We obtain each element in $K_{Dyn}^{(w,h)}$  alone the channel of $\Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h)$ as:
\begin{equation}
\begin{cases}
 & K^{(w,h)}_{Dyn}(i_1,j_1) = \Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h,c_n), n = 1 \\
 & K^{(w,h)}_{Dyn}(i_1,j_2) = \Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h,c_n), n = 2  \\
 & \cdots  \cdots  \\
 & K^{(w,h)}_{Dyn}(i_{n},j_{n}) = \Upsilon_{Dyn}(w,h,c_{n^2}),n^2 = C.
\end{cases}
\label{eqa:kernel_detail}
\end{equation}
Then, as illustrated in Eq.~\ref{eqa:attention}, the generated $K_{Dyn}$ is directly used on $I_{HR}$ to demonstrate a pure local attention.
\begin{table*}[ht]
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{\multirow{2}{*}{Methods}} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{$\times$2} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{$\times$3} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{$\times$4} \\ \cline{3-8}
\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{}                         & PSNR       & SSIM       & PSNR       & SSIM       & PSNR       & SSIM       \\ \hline \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{Traditional SR}  & SRResNet    &  33.79     & 0.918           &   30.52  &   0.858  &      29.03  &   0.821         \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & EDSR        & 33.57     &  0.916   &  30.13   &           0.847 &   28.77   &   0.812    \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & RCAN        & 33.76      &  0.917    & 30.36    &   0.861      &  28.89    &  0.820   \\ \hline \hline
\multirow{6}{*}{Real SR}
& EDRN        &     33.72       &           0.920 &  30.21    &    0.852     &  28.79    &  0.809  \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & KPN(K=5)    &  33.41	    &           	0.913 &  30.47	    &  0.860    &   28.80   &  	0.826     \\ \cline{2-8}
                                  & KPN(K=7)    &  33.42	    &           	0.913 &  30.49	    &  0.861    &   28.84   &  	0.826     \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & KPN(K=13)   &  33.44    &           0.913	 &  30.52    &   0.863    &  	28.92	    &   0.829   \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & KPN(K=19)   &  33.45   &           0.914 &  30.57    & 0.864    &   	28.99   &  0.832   \\ \cline{2-8}
                                 & LP-KPN(K=5) & 33.49     &           	0.917 &  30.60    &  0.865    & 	29.05    &  	0.834   \\
                                 \hline \hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Our}                      &  \textbf{ {\color{red} 34.37 }}    &   \textbf{ {\color{red} 0.932 }} &  \textbf{ {\color{red} 31.08 }}    &  \textbf{ {\color{red} 0.880 }}    &  \textbf{ {\color{red} 29.23 }}    & \textbf{ {\color{red} 0.837 }} \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Comparison between our models and other methods on the PSNR/SSIM indexes.}
\vspace{-3mm}
\label{tab:result}
\end{table*}

\textbf{Kernels generation.} we conduct a multi-scale dynamic attention strategy, we generate multiple dynamic spatial kernels as illustrated in Eq.~\ref{eqa:kernel} and~\ref{eqa:kernel_detail}. To fully capture multi-scale information, we adopt three dynamic spatial kernels with a size of 3$\times$3, 5$\times$5 and 7$\times$7. We conduct the dynamic convolution filters work on $I_{Rev}$ directly:

\begin{equation}
{I}'_{Att} =  \sum_{n=1}^{N} \left (\mathbf{g_{n}} \left ( I_{Rev} | K^{n}_{Dyn} \right ) \right ),
\label{eqa:aggregation}
\end{equation}
$N$ denotes the kernel number, we use 3 dynamic kernels for multi-scale dynamic attention.  As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:multi_scale}, our model adopt a multi-scale attention based on various size of dynamic convolutional filters$\left \{  K^{1}_{Dyn}, ..., K^{n}_{Dyn} \right \}$. Specifically, we incorporate several dynamic kernels on $I_{Rev}$ in parallel. The parallel results are aggregated together by summation to obtain the ${I}'_{Att}$. Since the kernel size is decided by channel number of $\Upsilon_{Dyn}$, we adopt 9, 25 and 49 channel numbers of $\Upsilon_{Dyn}$ to formulate the corresponding dynamic kernels.

\vspace{-3mm}
\subsection{Coupled Detail Manipulation}
Suppose we have the ${I}'_{Att}$, a critical problem is the input image may have pixel displacement and disparity. Therefore, a complementary component $G_{Dil}$ is incorporated for compensation and enhancement. $G_{Dil}$ adopts a residual learning strategy for the detail revealed. Supposed we have $I_{LR}$, the residual block is incorporated for feature representation:
\begin{equation}
I_{rev} = C_{Res}(I_{LR}) + I_{LR},
\end{equation}
$C_{Res}$ means residual block. The incorporated residual block has three convolutional layers with 3 $\times$ 3 convolutional kernel, the channel number is 64, 64 and 1, respectively. Once we obtain the $I_{Rev}$, as illustrated in Eq.~\ref{eqa:aggregation}, we employ the learned $K_{Dyn}$ work on enhanced image $I_{Rev}$ for a more accurate spatial aggregation. As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:detail_revealing}, compared with a single branch baseline, the proposed dual-way mechanism is able to realize a compensation and correction on original input, which exhibits an accurate image enhancement. Finally, we introduce a post-refinement operation by employing a convolution kernels with size of 3$\times$3 on ${I}'_{Att}$ for additional enhancement and restoration:
\begin{equation}
I_{Att} = \mathbf{F_{PR}}   \left ( {I}'_{Att},\Theta_{PR} \right )
\end{equation}

\section{Experiment}
\textbf{Dataset and Baselines.} We employ real-world single image super-resolution dataset(RealSR)~\cite{realsr} to evaluate the proposed method. RealSR dataset has 3,147 images, which are collected from 559 scenes. The images are mainly captured from Canon 5D3 and Nikon D810 devices. The cross-sensor image pair are aligned with iterative pixel-wise registration and alignment. RealSR dataset contains three scale(i.e., 2$\times$, 3$\times$ and 4$\times$). Each scale has 400 image pairs for training and 100 image pair for testing. Meanwhile, the training samples are collected from 459 scenes and testing images are collected from 100 scenes. To justify the effectiveness of our model, we conduct traditional image SR approaches, including SRResNet~\cite{srgan}, RCAN~\cite{rcan} and EDSR~\cite{edsr} for comparison. Furthermore, we also employ real image SR methods, including KPN~\cite{realsr}, EDRN~\cite{edrn}, for comparison.
\begin{table}[]
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Algorithm & Plain &  w/ PR & w/ CDM &  w/ MDA \\ \hline
PSNR      & 33.43 & 33.80     & 34.28      & 34.37      \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Ablation study on RealSR dataset with scale $\times$2}
\label{tab:ablation}
\vspace{-1mm}
\end{table}

\textbf{Comparison.}
As Tab.~\ref{tab:result} shown, our model achieves promising results on the real image SR benchmark. Compared with LP-KPN, our model achieves 0.88 dB promotion. Compared with RCAN~\cite{rcan}, our method exhibit a 0.61 dB gain. It notes that EDSR gets into overfitting as the training sample number is limited. As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:result}, our model restore a clear structure with less artifact, which justifies that the restoration quality improvement of our model is significant.

\begin{table*}[ht]
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{}                      & Time(s) / Frame    &   Patameter(MB) & PSNR(dB)\\ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{Traditional SR} & SRResNet  &   2.1            & 4.9  &  30.52 \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & EDSR      &   8.7              &  153.5  & 30.13 \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & RCAN      &  3.61               &  54.8   & 30.36 \\ \hline
\multirow{6}{*}{Real SR}        & EDRN      &  0.29             &  131.9   & 30.21  \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & KPN(K=5)  &   0.042         &  5.1   &  30.47 \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & KPN(K=7)  &   0.047        &  5.2    & 30.49 \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & KPN(K=13) &   0.065             &  5.5  &  30.52 \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & KPN(K=19) &  0.087             &  5.9  &  30.57  \\ \cline{2-5}
                                & LP-KPN(K=5)  &   0.138             &  5.7 &  30.60  \\ \hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Our}                   &  0.123      &   5.7  & 31.08  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Efficiency and parameter comparison with down-sample factor $\times$3 on RealSR dataset~\cite{realsr}. }
\label{tab:efficiency}
\end{table*}

\textbf{Ablation study.}
In the Tab.~\ref{tab:ablation}, we make an ablation study to justify the effectiveness of each component. We use the structure of the KPN(K=7) as the `plain' model. We append post-refinement on it(i.e., `w/ PR') and obtain 0.37 dB gain. Then, we analyze the effectiveness of CDM and MDA by incorporating `w/ CDM' and `w/ MDA'. As Tab.~\ref{tab:ablation} show, the CDM bring 0.48 dB promotion and the MDA give 0.09 gain. Since the `w/ CDM' achieves competitive result yet, the MDA component still brings significant improvement.

\textbf{Efficiency.}
As illustrated in~\ref{tab:efficiency}, our model surpasses traditional image SR(e.g., SRResNet, EDSR) with clear efficiency superiority and performance improvement. Compared with RealSR approaches, our model shows comparable efficiency with significant performance improvements. For instance, our model surpasses KPN(K=19) with 0.51 dB gain and 29$\%$ efficiency drop. Compared with LP-KPL, our model achieves significant improvement over performance with higher efficiency.

\section{Conclusion}
In this article, we propose a dual-path dynamic enhancement network for real image SR. To correct and relax pixel displacement, we incorporate a lightweight model for detail manipulation. To capture multi-scale information, we use multiple dynamic kernels with various sizes for information aggregation. Experimental results well justify the effectiveness of the proposed dual-path model.
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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai'pi National Historic Site | Alberta, Canada
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Blackfoot tipi on prairie grassland in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai'pi National Historic Site – J. Novotny, Alberta Parks
Welcome to Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai'pi National Historic Site, Where Histories, Stories and Dreams Become One. Set in the prairie grasslands of southern Alberta, Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi is a sacred landscape. The spectacular Milk River valley contains the largest concentration of First Nation petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings) on the great plains of North America. This special area was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2019.
This remains a sacred place to the Blackfoot First Nation. Abundant petroglyphs, covering sheer sandstone cliffs, native grasses, and wildlife are are protected as a living part of the Blackfoot natural spiritual heritage.
The Milk River flows through sandstone hoodoos and coulees carved by wind and rain since the last Ice Age. Hoodoos are columns of sandstone protected by top layers of resistant rock. While the sandstone is eroded by wind and rain, the hard cap protects the formation from water infiltration and collapse.
This park is a sacred landscape that has special spiritual significance for the Blackfoot people who hunted & traveled the Great Plains for generations. The traditional culture of the Blackfoot is based on a long & intimate relationship with the land; this landscape is still part of that tradition. The First Nations petroglyphs (carvings) & pictographs (paintings) that cover the park's sheer sandstone cliffs are protected here as a legacy to this spiritual connection of a people with a place.
Writing-on-Stone became a provincial park in January 1957. The park's archaeological preserve was established in 1977 to ensure protection of the largest concentration of rock art on the North American Plains.
The park provides a 64-site campground amid the riverside cottonwoods and willows. Showers, power hook-ups, tap water and flush toilets are available. Campsites are available to reserve ahead of time through reserve.albertaparks.ca. Check out the comfort camping opportunity on our website www.albertaparks.ca search for Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park.
Notice: The environment of Writing-On-Stone / Áísínai'pi is extremely fragile. Please stay on trails at all times to prevent soil erosion and damage to plants and landforms. Do not deface rock art or landforms. Damaging any cultural resource, including rock art, may result in a $50,000 fine and a one-year jail sentence. If you see artifacts, please leave them in place and contact park staff.
Driving Directions to Key Access Points
Near the Alberta-Montana boundary, 32 km east of Milk River on Hwy. 501 and 10 km south on access road.
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HATCHET JOB OF THE WEEK
When Alissa Nutting found out her old classmate Debra LaFave had been arrested for sleeping with a teenage pupil, she did what any aspiring writer would do and turned the sorry tale into a salacious, paedo-lite beach read. Tampa is - predictably - being promoted as the nubile lovechild of Lolita and Notes on a Scandal. Sarah Churchwell, writing in the Guardian, put it bottom of the class:
"Lacking any other saving stylistic or satirical grace, the novel ends up as fixated on sex with children as its protagonist. In the end, I don't want to be inside the mind of a sociopath; it proves the most unedifying place imaginable. If only you could always count on a paedophile for a fancy prose style, too."
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Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, which is one of the most beautiful and moving books I've read over the past few years ... That woman is just plain cool. She once stole a piece of raw steak and hid it in the pocket of her huge overcoat. I was completely overwhelmed by the powerful connection between her and Robert Mapplethorpe. Call me if you think you might be into recreating that.
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Which book would you give someone you're trying to impress?
I once gave a French boy a Charles Dickens novel that I hadn't even read myself, so probably not that… Perhaps a crossword book with all the puzzles completed.
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The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
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As 2015 gets underway, it is important to make resolutions that will improve your practice in whatever way you can. Not only will you make your workplace a happy and healthy place for your patients, but it will improve your outlook and well being as well! Here are some suggestions for your resolutions that will help kick off 2015 the right way.
1) Arrive to the Office on Time. When you're on time, you have a leg-up on all the latecomers. You can prepare for your day on your own time and make any mental notes about the day ahead that might be of importance. Sure, there are appointments already booked, but if you look it over ahead of time, you can think about what you'd like to address with your patients.
2) Finish Your Notes. You're probably in a rush, dashing from patient to patient, trying to assist as many people as you can. While that's an admirable goal, set aside some time in between patients to finish writing their notes that way you can be better prepared the next time the patient walks through your doors.
3) Be Considerate. Be sure to ask other providers if they need help. If you're willing to help your colleagues out of a tough situation, they will be more likely to help you when you need help. Yes, you're all incredibly busy, but if you're considerate of other doctors, you'll be able to work together as an effective medical team.
4) Learn ICD-10. The code set allows more than 14,400 different codes and permits the tracking of many new diagnoses. The WHO provides detailed information about ICD online, and makes available a set of materials online, such as an ICD-10 online browser, ICD-10 Training, ICD-10 online training, ICD-10 online training support, and study guide materials for download.
5) Learn Something New. Everything you learn could potentially benefit your practice. If you're always learning, you can help your colleagues when they need it, and can better address patient needs.
6) Don't Eat Lunch at Your Desk. It's easy to wish for a moment of silence throughout your constantly busy day, and often lunch time provides that moment. To make your team the strongest, talk with your colleagues, get to know them and understand them, and you will find that the company is an important part of your day.
7) Take Care of Yourself. If you're not keeping yourself healthy, how can you trust your patients to keep themselves healthy? Serve as an important role model in your practice: eat healthy, sleep well, exercise, and reduce stress.


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Q: Collation conflict when using NULLIF Here is the simplified query that shows up the error

Cannot resolve the collation conflict between
  "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS" in the equal
  to operation.

SELECT top 2 NULLIF(CONCAT(A.Col_1, A.Col_2),'') from [server].[db].[dbo].[Table_1] as A

I have tried searching for easy solution for the error and it turned up that everybody is talking about using specific or default Collation in the where clause. But as I don't have any where clause how can I fix it.
Note: Without using NULLIF it works fine
Note: I cannot change Collation of any of the two DB servers I am working on.
Well with this change the query is now executing. Not sure if this is the best way though.
SELECT top 2 NULLIF(CONCAT(A.oem1105_strategicoverview, A.oem1105_bigbetstrategies),'' COLLATE database_default)
from [hyd2oemcrmdev15].[OEM_CRM_MSCRM].[dbo].[Account] as A ORDER BY A.AccountId

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Rodgers helps New York rally past Seattle
NEW YORK (AP) — Sugar Rodgers came out of college as a prolific scorer. New York Liberty coach Bill Laimbeer is proud of the strides she's made on defense.
Rodgers scored a career-high 15 points, including seven in the final 3 minutes, and played stellar defense on Sue Bird in the second half to help New York beat the Seattle Storm 70-64 on Tuesday night.
"She was a great scorer in college and you saw the old Sugar Rodgers tonight. She made some great plays," Laimbeer said of the former Georgetown star. "We knew she was a quality defender. She was on Sue Bird the whole second half. Both ends of the floor, she was the difference in the game."
The Liberty trailed 62-54 with 2:55 left and had scored just one basket over the previous 13 minutes when Rodgers came to life. Her 3-pointer made it a five-point game. After Bird answered with a jumper, New York scored the final 11 points of the game, including five by Rodgers. Her 3-pointer with 1:06 left tied it at 64.
Cappie Pondexter then hit a jumper with 24.9 seconds left to give New York a lead. After Bird missed a pullup on the other end, Plenette Pierson hit two free throws to make it a four-point game. Rodgers then forced a turnover by Bird on the next possession to seal the win for the Liberty (2-2).
"It was great to contribute," Rodgers said. "Once I came into the pros I knew I had to pick up my defense."
It was New York's first win at Madison Square Garden this season and first since 2010. The Liberty spent the last three seasons playing in New Jersey while the Garden was undergoing a $1 billion renovation.
"The players were pressing a little to try and win here," Laimbeer said. "Now hopefully we can relax a little bit."
Tina Charles of the Liberty had 15 points and 14 rebounds, but shot just 6 for 19 from the field.
"We got some good looks, we didn't finish some shots," Laimbeer said.
Bird led Seattle (1-4) with 21 points, but only had four in the second half. Crystal Langhorne added 13 points and 15 rebounds.
"We let this one get away," Bird said. "You try to get a few wins on the road and this was one of them we should have had."
The teams traded baskets early in the third quarter. Shekinna Stricklen's 3-pointer with 5:58 left gave Seattle a 45-44 lead. Essence Carson answered with a 3 to put New York back on top. Those would be the last points of the quarter for the Liberty. Seattle couldn't really take advantage of New York's scoring drought. They couldn't manage a basket either after Stricklen's 3-pointer, but converted five free throws to take a 52-47 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Charles finally ended New York's drought hitting a layup early in the fourth. That would be the Liberty's only basket of the quarter until Rodgers got going as Seattle was able to build its lead to 62-54.
Seattle was able to stay in the game early because of Bird. She scored 17 points for the Storm, who closed the first half on a 17-5 run after trailing by nine points. The All-Star guard had seven points and an assist during the spurt. Her pullup with 2.9 seconds left made it 35-32.
Seattle is nearing the end of a five-game eastern swing that will conclude Friday in Atlanta. The Storm play 10 of their first 13 games on the road — the most ever to start a season according to STATS.
The Storm were without guard Jenna O'Hea, who is sidelined 4 to 6 weeks with a broken left pinky toe.
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As you can see, the DELETE took almost 80 seconds, mainly because the queued bib records are deleted via cascade and there are a lot of unindexed foreign key references to vandelay.queued_bib_record in other tables.
I'll push a commit momentarily that adds those indexes.
Would also like to be able to delete acquisitions queues.
The problem with deleting acquisitions queues was fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1289486.
If you continue to have the problem on a release that has the above fix, then I recommend filing a new bug since it is a separate problem than the one identified in this bug report.
These timeouts have also been a problem at a couple of our sites.
I just tested Jeff's patch with a queue containing 1000 records. Pre-patch, it took more than 18 seconds to delete the queue. Post-patch, it tooks a little more than three seconds to delete it.
Is this code considered to be a new feature? If so, we'll need a release notes entry.
Works for me! We got a roughly 5x speedup in queue deletion after adding the indexes.
Signed off and pushed to master for 2.9.


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Lucille Furs - Another Land - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Lucille Furs - Another Land
by Bill Golembeski Rating:8 Release Date:2019-02-15 Label: Requiem pour un Twister
This is a brand new album of present-past psych-pop music.
My friend, Kilda Defnut, says that Methuselah could have loved this record during his rebellious teen years, which theoretically, could have lasted for a hundred years or more.
Now, I am no Biblical scholar, but I carbon date the sound of this one to about 1965-68, give or take a radioactive isotope or two. But, to be specific, Chicago's Lucille Furs are a new band that breathes fresh life into the very vintage sound of psych rock and Baroque pop. And they are good! They are good like The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow, The Electric Prunes, Blossom Toes' We Were Ever So Clean, The Kinks' "Well Respected Man" and "Plastic Man," and (holy cow!) The Beatles as they turned from "Help" to "I'm Only Sleeping."
Mr. Radue (aka Jazz Guy) revealed a guilty pleasure as he confessed a more than a working knowledge of The Monkees (aka The Pre-Fab Four) as he lit up with youthful exuberance upon hearing "Paint Euphrosyne." This from a man who loves John Coltrane's Ascension!
But, as the already mentioned Pretty Things once sang, Get the Picture?
And speaking of the Beatles, oh my, the first tune "Another Land" begins with an almost cover of Lennon's "Come Together." It then changes tempo and breezes through guitar led psych land. And then, there's a sudden shift, and lovely shift at that, until the brisk notes return to end with a bit of fast drama. This is no longer simple pop music.
"Leave It as You Found It" is that sort of music hall tune of the period, replete with (ahhhh!) a kazoo. Such were (and are) the times.
"First Do No Harm" returns to The Beatles footprint with harmonies and musical vibe that echo Rubber Soul or Revolver. The song "I'm Looking Through You" comes to mind.
My own guilty pleasure: I hear "Pleasant Valley Sunday" all over this record, although to be fair, the pleasant valley is cut into a deeper groove.
This music recreates the moment when simple pop e-x-p-a-n-d-e-d. "All Flowers Before Her," "Eventually," and "Karaoke Trials" all chomp at the extended psychedelic bit. The Beach Boys cross wires with early Moody Blues, with a dash of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. And then surf rock is somehow still relevant with "Madredexiliados." Oh, and "The 34th Floor" is psych-pop perfection, as is "Sooner or Later" which has John Lennon's sly melodious touch. It's a nice song.
So really, if the psych stuff is the itch, then this record will polish the sophisticated pop surfboard.
The final songs, "Transmitting from the Blind Guard," "Almond Bees," and "No Word in English" are Baroque pop tunes. That will satisfy fans of Robyn Hitchcock, and anybody else name-checked in the preceding paragraphs.
Ultimately, there is a bit of Jurassic Park about all of this music. You know, mosquitoes, amber, dinosaur DNA, and of course, the hatching of that baby Velociraptor and a Gallimimus stampede. Sure, this is music kept in rock 'n' roll amber, but it has now been reborn in a melodic psychedelic friendly Brontosaurus dinosaur sort oy way. And that's always a nice thing to do.
But speaking of Mosquitoes (and addressing Gilligan's Island aficionados), that was the name of the band who escaped to Gilligan's Island in an episode, Don't Bite the Mosquitoes, aired December 9, 1965, and who decided, instead of getting it together in the country to develop their music pop sound (ala Traffic) they needed an island, an island that just happened to be inhabited by those favorite cast-a-ways. Well, the DNA of their mid-Sixties pop sound, stuck forever in the amber of television reruns, has also been rescued, psyched up, pushed into the future, and, finally, now pulled from the past into a rather great and very melodic record album.
And, as my friend, Kilda Defnut (when not citing Biblical icons), says every once in a while, "Insects often make the best rock music."
Bryan Radue
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JazzGuy here: I call them as I hear them!
Now those Mosquitoes are another story…
Bob Coyne Bryan Radue
Jazz guy! Nice to put a face to an infamous name. Now, where's Kilda Defnut
Personally, the Mosquitoes were a little rough! But, the Honeybees were sweet and smooth! Even the Skeeters thought so! They were so shook they took the last train to Splitsville, Man!
Robert Sotelo - Infinite Sprawling
By Bill Golembeski
Duncan Fellows - Eyelids Shut EP
The Pull of Autumn - Afterglow
The Black Keys - Let's Rock
By Florian Meissner
Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas
Wovoka Gentle - Start Clanging Cymbals
Siskiyou - Not Somewhere
Dreamtime - Tidal Mind
Black Mountain - Destroyer


The annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament dates back to 2005 and has quickly become an exciting Princeton tradition. With four brackets of different sizes, clubs of all kinds can enter the tournament, and the winners get nice cash prizes. Over one hundred student groups regularly sign up, making it one of the few events that attracts people from all different corners of campus. Whereas most Thursday nights campus social activity is physically separated into a handful of eating clubs, on the night of the tournament hordes of students descend on Dillon Gym to hang out and compete together and against one another. Freshman year, I remember marveling at how many unfamiliar faces I saw in one place, and I found the tournament to be exhilarating. The whole enterprise seemed so collegiate and collegial, a time when we could put aside our various commitments and collect in a single place to partake in friendly competition.
It was with this mindset that I arrived at the tournament this year. For the most part, I felt that my expectations were met. One of the nicer things about the tournament is that while each team is identified based on a particular student group, the boundaries are loose and attendees find themselves invited to play for friends' organizations or groups they may never even have heard of. This convention serves to offset competitiveness. I can play for one team in round one and then play for their opponents in round two with little compunction. This suggests that people are really there to have fun.
The tournament also provides an opportunity for real bonding as a group. The first team I played with was Yavneh, the Orthodox Jewish group on campus. It was nice to come together and collectively participate in an activity quite unlike the ones we normally engage in together. We're not Triangle or Shere Khan and so we're not used to being cheered on for things ("yeah, you READ that Torah!"), and I can't deny that that's pretty fun. The group ListServ was pulsating when we made it to the third round, and despite the close and unfortunate loss to a club sports team, group solidarity has probably never been higher.
But by the same token, the event can also bring out unfortunate behavior in both individuals and groups. For one thing, the relative lack of oversight creates a moral hazard. The game moves quickly, and judges can't possibly see every interaction between player and ball. Plenty of people do step out when hit. Others, though, will stay in the game until a judge calls them out repeatedly, or until they are sufficiently shamed by members of the opposing team pointing and shouting at them and can no longer feign ignorance. People will often stay in the game if given any wiggle room at all, ducking out for a moment only to return soon after, banking on the fact that no one was paying close enough attention to notice. It seems that without the Honor Code (and perhaps the looming specter of suspension?), many people don't behave so honorably. Worse, the same people who choose to stay in after being knocked out will often turn around and shout at those on the other team who they take to be cheating.
This type of behavior is not unexpected, but it is still unfortunate. It takes an event that is presumably intended to be pure, low-stakes fun, an opportunity for campus-wide bonding, and infuses it with a bizarre and unwelcome seriousness. Is it really that big of a deal to leave when you get knocked out? More frustrating than that, though, is the extent of the cheating among certain groups. It is incredibly exasperating to watch as a team repeatedly and systematically refuses to abide by the rules. I leave with my voice hoarse and my sense of fairness feeling battered.
I also think the opportunity to build group spirit often goes too far and amplifies malignant elements of campus culture. This is most problematic when it comes to the eating clubs. In the lead-up to the event a Cottage member sent out an email addressed to the club membership (apparently referred to as "Taj") encouraging them to show up, saying: "This is an opportunity for the bigger, stronger kids on campus (Cottage Club) to pick on the weaker ones (Terrace). And since dodgeball is all about exclusion and degradation, we should have no problem maintaining our image and dominating tomorrow night." Limited to a few emails, this isn't such a big deal. With the appropriate level of critical detachment, trash talking is fun to engage in and amusing to observe. In moderation it can be a good way to work up a mild rivalry and motivate your own side. No one is contesting the self-congratulatory assessment that Cottage members are (on average) stronger than their Terrace counterparts. The problem is when the type of attitude expressed in an email of this kind makes its way onto the dodgeball court and pervades the entire gym.
Terrace has a significantly larger membership than Cottage, and this was represented in the size of the teams fielded by each side. Terrace officers used the match as an opportunity for to raise group identification, likening the match to the movie "300"—with the Terrans representing the Persians. ("You remember how 300 ends? the Spartans all die. All of them.") Few Terrans actually expected to win. One Terran (and Nass writer) described herself as "cannon fodder." But leading into the match, spirits were high, and "T-F-C" chants reverberated throughout Dillon. Many non-Terrace members donned the Terrace tie-dyed headband and joined in.
The match was ugly to watch. With so many people playing, the referees were basically useless, and people used this to their advantage. One Cottage player's ball was caught, and despite loud protestations to the contrary, he continued playing. To add insult to injury, he opted to repeatedly kick the balls as hard as he could instead of throwing them, hitting onlookers in the face and generally wreaking havoc. Was this a lone Cottage member mistaking himself for Captain Falcon from Super Smash Brothers (I'm pretty sure he bestially screamed "Falcon kick!" as he struck the balls with his foot), or was this an exemplification of a larger attitudinal problem among a large swath of dodgeball participants? He was far from the only offender. Whenever the game reached a lull, a few girls from the Cottage team would scamper forward to taunt the Terrace side, literally thumbing their noses and shaking their butts. It was painfully obvious that many of those on the Cottage team reveled in mocking Terrace and its relative unathleticism. Terrace's disapproval of Cottage was a bit more subtle, mainly confined to snide remarks about athletes and/or accusations of misogyny. At a certain point, the overwhelmed refs felt forced to call off the match and instead have each side pick twenty players who would then compete. When Cottage—unsurprisingly—won, they celebrated as if this were a major upset. There was lots of shouting, jumping, and backslapping. There may have been cartwheels.
The whole thing left me with a bad taste in my mouth. By pitting clubs against one another and giving them a chance to build team and Princeton spirit, what ended up happening seemed to be the entrenchment of group stereotypes and enmity. Intra-group spirit was built by demonizing the other team. That's the opposite of what a campus-wide event should do. I almost wished I was at the Orange and Black Ball.
Sports are idealistically held up as an opportunity to manifest fair play and honorable behavior. I happen to think this is a stupid justification for athletic competition. It reminds me of the response some philosophers give to the argument against God based on the existence of evil. It makes sense that an omni-benevolent being would create evil, they say, because in a world without suffering there would be little opportunity for bravery and kindness, qualities we can agree are good. Suffering provides individuals with the opportunity to act freely and exhibit morally laudable behavior. Similarly, in arguing for the positive contribution for sports on the basis of the sportsmanship, we seem to be saying that by putting people in circumstances which induce their aggressive spirit, we allow them the chance to overcome that tendency and behave politely and respectfully toward others.
The problem—aside from the fact that the good-making response to the problem of evil is pretty dumb for reasons I won't get into here—is that formal athletic situations are contrived. The dodgeball tournament does not emerge from an omniscient God or from human nature or from the structure of reason. We organize it. I'm not arguing that, all things considered, sports or the dodgeball tournament are bad. I like sports. I generally have fun at the dodgeball tournament. It's just that in general, Princeton students have competitive tendencies. It would be unfortunate if dodgeball were just an opportunity for the reification of a toxic mindset that lurks under the surface of our academic and social experiences.
The dodgeball tournament is undoubtedly a great opportunity to promote campus synergy, and to some extent it accomplishes that goal. It can be improved. If we are a bit more mindful of our actions, our context, and the tradeoffs that go into "team spirit," some of the negative behavior that poisons the atmosphere of this event—and of campus as a whole—can be avoided. Let's aim for an evening where even if Terrace members have to lose their dodgeball match, they don't have to worry about losing their lunch money as well.


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Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
By Taomo Zhou
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Cornell University Press, 2019, 318 pp.
This impressively researched study of Sino-Indonesian relations from 1945 to 1967 links three levels of diplomacy: state-to-state relations between China and Indonesia's leftist leader Sukarno, party-to-party relations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Indonesian Communist Party, and the struggle between the rival regimes in Beijing and Taipei for influence over Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community. Chinese and Indonesian archives show how Beijing and Jakarta cooperated in the fluid politics of the global anti-imperialist movement, siding in 1963–64 against what they viewed as a British imperialist plot to create Malaysia, a new state formed by the merger of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore. The book dispels the myth that China directed the attempted coup in 1965 that led to the rise of the anticommunist strongman General Suharto, a break in Sino-Indonesian relations, and a massacre of suspected Communists, many of them ethnic Chinese. The Beijing-Taipei contest for influence in the ethnic Chinese community exacerbated the suspicion that the Chinese represented a fifth column. Throughout the turbulent politics of the time, Chinese Indonesians were victims of discrimination and violence, paradoxically accused both of capitalist exploitation and of pro-Beijing loyalties—suspicions that persist even today, when the two countries have full diplomatic and economic ties.
More By Andrew J. Nathan
Source URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2020-02-11/migration-time-revolution-china-indonesia-and-cold-war


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Stewart Cink (* 21. Mai 1973 in Huntsville, Alabama) ist ein US-amerikanischer Profigolfer der PGA Tour.

Werdegang
Er wurde 1995 Berufsgolfer und nach Siegen bei der Mexican Open und weiteren drei Turnieren auf der Nike Tour in der Saison 1996 stieg er in die PGA Tour auf. Dort holte er sich gleich in der ersten Saison seinen ersten großen Titel, die Canon Greater Hartford Open. Cink spielte weiter sehr beständig und gewann 2000  noch die MCI Classic. Sein bislang erfolgreichstes Jahr hatte er 2004 mit einem fünften Platz in der Money List und Siegen bei der MCI Heritage und der WGC-NEC Invitational, einem Event der hochdotierten und bestbesetzten World-Golf-Championships-Turnierserie. Im Juli 2009 gewann Cink das bedeutendste Golfturnier der Welt, The Open Championship im Stechen gegen den fast 60-jährigen Tom Watson.

Cink vertrat sein Land bisher je viermal im Ryder Cup und im Presidents Cup, sowie einmal im World Cup.

Er ist mit seiner Frau Lisa verheiratet, hat zwei Kinder und seinen Wohnsitz in Duluth, Georgia.

PGA Tour Siege
 1997:  Canon Greater Hartford Open
 2000:  MCI Classic
 2004:  MCI Heritage,  WGC-NEC Invitational
 2008:  Travelers Championship
 2009:  The Open Championship

Major Championships sind fett gedruckt.

Ergebnisse bei Major-Championships

DNP = nicht angetreten
WD = zurückgezogen
CUT = am Cut gescheitert
"T" = geteilter Rang
Grüner Hintergrund für Siege. Gelber Hintergrund für Top-Ten-Resultate.

Andere Turniersiege
 1996: Mexican Open
 1996: Nike Ozarks Open,  Nike Colorado Classic,  Nike Tour Championship (alle Nike Tour)
 1999: Mexican Open
 2006: Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (mit Zach Johnson und Scott Verplank)
 2007: CVS Caremark Charity Classic (mit J.J. Henry)

Teilnahmen an Teambewerben
 Presidents Cup: 2000 (Sieger), 2005 (Sieger), 2007 (Sieger), 2009 (Sieger)
 Ryder Cup: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 (Sieger), 2010
 World Cup: 2005

Weblinks
 Spielerprofil bei der PGA Tour (englisch)

Golfer (Vereinigte Staaten)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1973
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Harland, Mike. Worship Essentials: Growing a Healthy Worship Ministry Without Starting A War. Nashville: B&H Books, 2018.
Worship Essentials by Mike Harland is a useful book for any church leader to consider. Worship is at the core of what Christians do together. Harland reminds his readers what a powerful component worship is in shaping both our theology and our faith community.
Mike Harland is the Director of Worship for LifeWay Christian Resources. In the forward, Thom Rainer hails him as a go-to worship "guru" for the Southern Baptists. He is a Dove Award-Winning songwriter, and his blog and podcast WorshipLife are followed by worship leaders internationally.
The book is arranged into four Values, spread across ten chapters.
The style of the book is conversational. Though it is clear Harland has done extensive reading and study in the area of worship, the book does not have an especially academic feel and is likely intended for more of a general audience.
I applaud Harland for insisting that the main thing should be the main thing. Everything should begin with a deep appreciation and longing for Jesus Christ. The book contains many pithy expressions that demonstrate his "guru" qualities. For example, he reminds us that even though worship produces something visible (10). "Authentic worship is observable in the life change of a heart consistently moving toward alighment with God's purposes," Harland explains (12).
Likewise, he invites us to think more deeply about the words of the songs we sing. Knowing that the story of Jesus is what drives our story, how well do our songs actually teach the story of Jesus (48)? This is a great question! In this kind of thinking, Harland helps us rise above some of the squabbles that are typical of "worship wars" to reflect on the deeper power of how our songs shape our community. It is worth reflecting on our "Heart Songs" to see what they express (44). I loved his emphasis on the importance of the worship and preaching ministers being in solid alignment. His insistence on being worshippers of depth and intention is one of the great strengths of the book.
As a member of the a cappella churches of Christ, it was interesting for me to read through Harland's list of what he believes has become problematic in his contexts. In fact, they are an almost verbatim list of the kinds of cautions I would raise about my hesitance to add instruments, or extensive lighting and aesthetic effects.
His metaphor for explaining the problem is a useful one: Is the church a filling station or an altar? At a filling station, a person goes to receive something ("It's about you"), but at an altar, a person goes to give something ("It's about the glory of God")(92). Because of the elements of loud bands, visual enhancements, and high-dollar sound enforcements, Harland laments that in so many churches, the people have stopped singing almost entirely. As a way to greater congregational involvement, he proposes churches should turn down or cut back on the music, or even try some a cappella singing as a way to bolster Christians back into active participation (106).
While his tips here are on point, I was disappointed that the section on implementation did not receive anywhere near as much treatment as his sections on theology or on common problems, which are most of the book. There is lots of great material and quotes to help create a healthy theology of worship, rooted in many Scriptures I had not considered before–and will continue to ponder. But for the nuts and bolts of what solid implementation might look like, I feel that with all of Harland's experience, he was capable of providing a lot more guidance, caveats, and best practices for what a well-functioning worship team would look like, and how teams successfully navigate problems. Undoubtedly he has myriads of stories of how this can be done well, or how it can be done poorly. I would have loved to read them.
Though I thoroughly enjoyed the book, because I felt the book was more about theology than implementation, while its title hinted at the reverse, I would give it 4/5.


Prevention and self-management are key to a sustainable health and social care service. This 45-minute case study webinar will detail how Loreburn Housing Association (Dumfries and Galloway's long-established supported housing provider) is helping to lead the way in prevention and self-management with the adoption of ARMED (Advanced Risk Modelling for Early Detection).
Hear from Moira Charters, Head of Improvement and Innovation at Loreburn Housing Association, about the benefits using ARMED is bringing to help predict those at risk of falling and enable faster support and better self-management.
This exclusive session will reveal lessons learnt in becoming a prevention pioneer, describe how the solution is giving people confidence and discuss for the first time some of the key benefits and results of implementing a prevention solution to date.
Anyone with a responsibility for delivering care within a community, care or residential home setting.
Please note, numbers are limited and are subject to availability. Please register early to secure your place.


With "lose weight and exercise more" will invariably appear on the list of many people's New Year's resolutions. However, this is equally one of the first resolutions to be ditched (and often within January). The sticking with or dropping the exercise commitment does not appear to be solely down to willpower. Another factor appears to be a regional effect. Whether this relates to peer pressure, the number of fitness centers, or to some other factor is debatable;e. Nonetheless, there are regional differences. Taking the U.S. as an example, the personal-finance website WalletHub discussed these variances. The company has released a report on 2019's "Best & Worst Cities for an Active Lifestyle".
In order to determine where U.S. citizens have the best chance of balancing factors like a healthy diet with sufficient physical activity, WalletHub undertook and exercise that compared the 100 biggest U.S. cities across 38 identified metrics. The data set for the metrics ranges from average monthly fitness-club fee to bike score to share of physically inactive adults.
This means that Hialeah in Florida comes bottom of the list.
Outside of the top and bottom positions on the list, there are some interesting items of data that can be extracted from the survey. For instance, New York has the most sporting-goods stores (per square root of population) at 0.4395. This is 12.5 times more than in North Las Vegas, Nevada, the city with the fewest at 0.0351. Taking one outside activity, Gilbert, Arizona, has the most public golf courses (per square root of population) at 0.0809; which is 40.5 times more than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the fewest at 0.0020.
In terms of training to keep fit, Lincoln, Nebraska, has the most fitness trainers and aerobics instructors per 100,000 residents at 223. This is 7.7 times more than in Corpus Christi, Texas, the city with the fewest at 29. Whereas with open spaces, New York has the most playgrounds (per square root of population) at 0.6607; which is 18.9 times more than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the fewest at 0.0349.


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OLCF Scientist Talks Early Summit Results at APS Meeting
By	Rachel McDowell	• 2 years ago	• People
Bronson Messer presents new supernova simulations at physics conference
The American Physical Society's "Quarks to the Cosmos" meeting took place April 13–16 in Denver.
Bronson Messer, a computational scientist at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), gave an invited talk at the American Physical Society's (APS's) "Quarks to the Cosmos" April meeting in Denver, detailing his current work on the OLCF's 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer.
In the talk, titled "Nuclear Astrophysics Approaching the Exascale: Multi-Physics Simulations of Stellar Explosions and Their Nucleosynthesis," Messer explained how his team's work on the GPU-enabled version of the FLASH astrophysics code allowed the group to model hundreds of nuclear species reacting with one another during a star's explosion and at timescales in the range of hours. FLASH is one of the codes in the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness, an effort to optimize scientific applications for new leadership-class computing systems such as Summit.
"The number of nuclei that we were able to routinely include in one of these nuclear networks on the OLCF's Titan system was only 13," Messer said of the center's Cray XK7 system. "After we modified our code for Summit's GPUs, we were able to include 231."
Messer's team tracks how nuclear burning happens during an explosion of a massive star called a supernova. The explosive start of these events lasts only about a second in real time, but that physical time takes about 3 months to simulate on Titan.
"We really need to model this process out to hours so we can understand how supernova remnants form and evolve. These are the objects we actually observe with telescopes and gamma-ray satellites," Messer said.
Messer and his team have modeled up to 17 hours of the supernova event—a monumental improvement over the 3 seconds they were previously able to model on Titan. They achieved this by using the larger nuclear composition modules they accelerated for Summit and turning off some computationally intensive physics that becomes less important after the first second.
Messer said the nuclear network module his team accelerated in this work will be used in the ExaStar application within the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Exascale Computing Project, a collaborative effort of DOE's Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration to deliver a capable exascale computing ecosystem. The OLCF, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is scheduled to deliver an exascale system called Frontier in 2021.
OLCF's Bronson Messer gave a tour to Noah Caldwell and his brother Seth McDaniel when the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted them a visit last summer.
Messer and the rest of the ExaStar team are currently working on adding new components to ExaStar, including new capabilities for modeling phenomena such as nuclear burning, the transport of neutral subatomic particles called neutrinos, and general relativistic gravity. Eventually the team hopes to perform full simulations of core-collapse supernovae. They also aim to simulate the merging of two neutron stars, a process that forms either a black hole or a hypermassive neutron star that might decay into a black hole.
With ExaStar and systems like Frontier, simulations of such occurrences will, for the first time, be realized with a level of fidelity adequate to compare to observations.
Messer's talk was part of a session titled "Building the Bridge to Exascale Computing: Applications and Opportunities for Nuclear Physics." Other session speakers were Saori Pastore, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and OLCF user André Walker-Loud of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
UT-Battelle LLC manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for DOE's Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. DOE's Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit https://science.energy.gov.
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A: Use below code to check that browser supports maxlength:
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maxLength is case sensitive here.
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A: You can check the existence of this option by looking at the object element.
$("#d_textarea")[0].maxLength holds the implementation of the maxlength attribute. If this value is undefined or simply doesn't exist, it means it's not supported by the browser.

A: If you are asking for maxlength attribute, it is supported by all browsers from very start. Please check : http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp

A: On browser tick F12 aka developer mode, You can just check the property of the HTML textbox, drill down and look to properties you should see maxLength property. -1 is default, and other value is defined by you


I've made this bread twice now and feel like I have come close to perfecting the recipe. My mother and I found this recipe in a cookbook from the Hummingbird Bakery in London on Portobello Road in Notting Hill. Just the location of the bakery was enough for me to give it a try. Plus the picture of it in the cookbook looked decadent and dense with the most perfectly browned crust and moist center. If I can't go to London, at least I can bring a taste of Europe home.
One of my favorite local baked goods in Salt Lake comes from Tulie Bakery and is a Lemon Almond Loaf. When they serve it to you they slice you a generous piece and I usually can't eat it all at once. Since trying the lemon bread at Tulie I've been wanting to try making it at home. When my mom brought me a large bag full of the most beautiful lemons you've ever seen, I knew just what I wanted to make.
A rich and moist lemon bread cake recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery in London.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix sugar, zest, and eggs in electric mixer until well mixed. Sift into separate bowl, the flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl combine milk and vanilla extract.
Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and beat well. Then add 1/3 of the milk mixture. Repeat this two more times until well mixed. Turn mixer up to high speed and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. Turn mixer to low and add melted butter. Mix until well incorporated.
Pour into 9x5 inch loaf pan that has been greased and dusted with flour. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes. Loaf should be golden brown and bounce back to the touch. Let cool slightly in the pan before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Pour lemon syrup on top when the loaf is still hot.
Bring lemon juice, sugar, zest, and 1/2 cup of water to a boil a sauce pan. Boil until it has been reduced by half or until it has a thin syrup consistency. When hot loaf comes out of the oven, put it on a wire rack in the sink and pour syrup over the top. Excess syrup will run over the edges and into the sink.
**this makes a lot of batter but don't be tempted to split the batter into two loaves bc it will change the density of the bread as well as the cook times. Also, if you want more of the syrup to soak in the bread, you can use a toothpick to poke holes in the top of the loaf. Let cool completely before serving.
It definitely looks like you've perfected this recipe! I'm going to have to try this one!
Oh my goodness, this looks amazing! I can't wait to try it! My neighbor has a lemon tree, maybe I will ask them for some in-lieu of some yummy Lemon Loaf.
I love Tulie Bakery as well. Have you ever tried their gingerbread tile? Just a simple piece of heaven. Your lemon loaf sounds wonderful, I must give it a try. The story of where it came from rang the same tune for me, who could resist?
Again… a lemon wonder! How could this not be delicious?!? Beautiful photos as well.
I make a similar lemon loaf, but I use yogurt. Love it. Great photos!
I am in search of THE perfect lemon loaf and so far have come close, but not quite there yet.
Will have to give this recipe a try.
Too bad you don't have a photo of a slice of the cake. Would love to know if the cake is quite dense/heavy or if it is nice and soft. Could you comment on this please?
Also, any chance you have the recipes in grams.
Love the photos and thanks for sharing the recipe.
Sharon, it is a dense and heavy bread. I tried taking a photo of a slice but didn't have the patience to wait for it to cool so the slices didn't look that great. Wait for it to cool before you slice it.
Loved it.. posted it forward!!!!!!


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Summer days are perfect for picnics. Finding the perfect shady spot to sit and enjoy a gorgeous sunny afternoon is what weekends are made for!
I love this blanket! It's big enough for two to sit and have a quick lunch or snack.
2 | Picnic Basket Set | on sale!
I think everyone should have one of these. They're nice to be able to grab in a hurry and pack with sandwiches and fruit.
These would be great to use indoors as well as out all summer long.
The 25 oz size of this bottle holds an entire bottle of wine (!), and will keep it at the perfect temperature. It's also good to store water with ice that won't melt on a warm day.
Having napkins on hand is a necessity, and I just adore the tassels on this set.
Bug bites are real! I am a magnet for them, so having one of these nearby for a picnic is perfect.
7 | Cheese Board Set | on sale!
The knives store under the board, making it very transportation-friendly.
Decided to bake something up, or just need a sturdy storage container? This has a tight silicone-seal lid.
Another option for keeping your drinks cool is this cooler sleeve. It's basically a koozie you can freeze!


How deep should a fire pit be dug? And how should it be lined?
To use the fire pit, light the pit with a lighter. Drag the object to be cooked into the fire and either hold it in place or drop it so that it rests balanced on top of the fire. Cooking times average about 1 to 1.5 minutes. When the food is complete, a bell chime will sound and � how to make deviled sausages sauce 20/09/2018�� A fire pit needs to be a shallow hole with nothing in it except your fire. Make sure it is clear and dry to make sure it burns properly. If possible, you can ring the outside with rocks to mark the location better and prevent other items from falling in and catching on fire.
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//  FourthViewManger.m
//  SUIMVVMDemo
//
//  Created by yuantao on 16/3/6.
//  Copyright © 2016年 lovemo. All rights reserved.
//

#import "FourthViewManger.h"
#import "SUIUtils.h"
#import "FourthView.h"
#import "Masonry.h"

@interface FourthViewManger ()

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"We're usually looking for high-upside, grand slam investments with IRRs of 30-40% and more," said Mike Wohl, Investment Manager of Otter Consulting, a South Florida single-family office.
While we wish Mr. Wohl luck in attaining his return targets, everyone including him knows that it is an impossible return on uninvested cash. Marketplace lending as an industry averaged 6.5% returns after fees for all investors last year. Mr. Wohl explained that this is a great return for idle cash given the low risk and volatility, so Otter invests a portion of unallocated cash to marketplace lending.
Mr. Wohl utilizes LendingRobot, which purchases loans on Lending Club based on his specific criteria in order to ensure the available cash balance is continually committed to loans at the four pre-determined feeding times. This automates and simplifies the majority of the potentially tedious aspects to Marketplace Lending.


in a gunshot in the dark.
or the silent solitude of prayer.
There is a human language that encompasses the globe, regardless of race, color, creed or country. Much the same way as laughter or tears, or any of our human emotions. When we see someone laugh, there is a universal language that is communicated by all of us. We know they are happy. Just as when we see someone crying, it is generally accepted to mean they are, most likely, sad. However, the language I am referring to goes beyond the sight of emotions, and runs deeper than the tear streaked lines of a sad face. I am speaking of a language that can penetrate to the deepest depths of the human psyche, it can be felt in the beating of our hearts and it can leave us soaring among our dreams.
This universal language is music.
Upon these waves of sound we can find our spirits lifted to the heavens, we can feel the beats and the rhythms in our beings and we are moved by the vibrations. We may become lost in a memory or a moment of time may be singled out by the distinct patterns and oscillations of a melody. We may gather by the thousands to listen to this music together or we may be alone in our rooms, or be dancing with our friends or cuddling with our love, but the universal language of music expands human communication beyond the normal realm. It propels us into the wavelengths of our souls, and it is there that we become in tune, we find our harmonies, and we recognize that there is a true power in music.
The poetry included in this book seeks to capture that essence and tap into that power. These are the lines of communication opened and inspired by the universal language called music.
Thanks for sharing your work and God bless you!


In early November Kerry, I and some friends traveled to Ibo Island for some vacation time and we were utterly impressed with what we found. What an absolutely fascinating place. The sea and the Mangroves were stunning and the reefs were certainly in better shape than ours back in Kenya. It was the town itself though that really made the trip.
We stayed at Ibo Island Hotel. It was well run, very pretty and it fitted into the historic setting very naturally. We were told that it had been the Governor's residence which would explain the commanding view of the bayside and the open sea.
History on Ibo is easy to access and the tour of the town was one of the highlights of our time there. Ibo was a very strategic port in the slave trade, having been first developed by the Arabs in AD 600. Gold and Ivory as well as amber, jet and turtle shell were traded here and evidence of the cultures that gravitated to Ibo are everywhere. The Portuguese held the island for the longest but they had to wrestle it off the Arabs in pitched wars that one can only imagine were very brutal. There are Chinese graves on Ibo from the 1600s and there is a section of town that was exclusively Indian.
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He believes that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, examining both himself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living.
These general accusations were that Socrates was: Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again! The story about the oracle of Delphi and the statement attributed to it concerning Socrates being the wisest man in Athens is another example of Socratic irony. Well, then, I will make my defence, and I will endeavor in the short time which is allowed to do away with this evil opinion of me which you have held for such a long time; and I hope I may succeed, if this be well for you and me, and that my words may find favor with you.
Injustice may appear to be triumphant at the time, but eventually evildoers will be given a just recompense. And the truth of this I will endeavor to prove. For instance, if the accusers ask for the death penalty, it was customary for the accused to ask for banishment.
Is there any one who understands human and political virtue? In each encounter the person made a claim that he was in possession of some kind of wisdom or absolute knowledge. This is the reason why Meletus, Anytus, and others have charged him with crimes and are bringing him to trial. The only kind of rhetoric for which he has any use is that of making a presentation of facts in language so clear that all can understand.
For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life.
And this is a duty which the God has imposed upon me, as I am assured by oracles, visions, and in every sort of way in which the will of divine power was ever signified to anyone. And the truth of this I will endeavor to prove to you.
It is a remarkable speech and one that illustrates Socrates' deep conviction that it is far better to suffer injustice than it is to practice injustice. He liked to observe that successful fathers such as the prominent military general Pericles did not produce sons of their own quality.
Epilogue 34cd Socrates tells the "men of Athens" that he wants to be judged according to his account of himself and not by any other standard -- such as appealing to his old age or the fact that he has children.
Did ever any man believe in horsemanship, and not in horses? What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? In the Phaedrus, we are told Socrates considered this to be a form of "divine madness", the sort of insanity that is a gift from the gods and gives us poetrymysticismloveand even philosophy itself.
This does not mean that he has any quarrel with the physical scientists. Answer, friend, I say; the question is one which may be easily answered. He went to the poets, and after asking them to explain some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, he found they had no understanding of the things they had written.
When this was reported to Socrates, he was amazed, for he had never considered himself to be a wise person. And hardest of all, I do not know and cannot tell the names of my accusers; unless in the chance case of a Comic poet. He had never been interested in the physical sciences, although he was familiar with the theories of Anaxagoras.
It will be very clear to you, Athenians, as I was saying, that Meletus has no care at all, great or small, about the matter.
Socrates jokingly suggests that if he were to get what he deserves, he should be honored with a great meal for being of such service to the state. Whereupon I made another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.
Socrates' Comments on his Sentence Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of the city, who will say that you killed Socrates, a wise man; for they will call me wise even although I am not wise when they want to reproach you.
He says that I am a doer of evil, who corrupt the youth; but I say, O men of Athens, that Meletus is a doer of evil, and the evil is that he makes a joke of a serious matter, and is too ready at bringing other men to trial from a pretended zeal and interest about matters in which he really never had the smallest interest.Socrates' second speech is an argument for a different penalty rather than death, but Socrates argues that he is doing a great service to the state of Athens, so that the appropriate penalty would be to pay him a stipend for the rest of his life to support him in his criticism of individual citizens of Athens.
Socrates then proceeds to interrogate Meletus, the man primarily responsible for bringing Socrates before the jury. This is the only instance in The Apology of the elenchus, or cross-examination, which is so central to most Platonic dialogues. Apology Quotes. Want to Read saving ― Plato, Apology of Socrates: An Interpretation with a New Translation.
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Throughout the Apology, Socrates puts forward his views of wisdom, virtue, and nobility he believes to be moral truths, not to clear his name, but to reveal the ignorance.
Analysis of Plato's Apology. The Apology is Plato's recollection and interpretation of the Trial of Socrates ( BC). In this dialogue Socrates. Socrates, Roman mural 1st century Introduction to Western Philosophy The Apology— 2 What is most ab surd in all this is that o ne c anno t .